What I really, really liked about this film in the end was its utter complexity. Ennis is bastard and homophobia is wrong and he can't relate to anyone... Yes. Yes.
Of course you can find messages in it, if you go looking. Adultery fucks people over. Homophobia is a bad thing. But the movie (and the story), are not about those messages. They are about life: real, complex, and with no clear answers. If you find those messages, it's only because they are true to life, not because the movie is trying to get you to see things that way.
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Date: 2006-01-09 04:00 am (UTC)Yes. Yes.
Of course you can find messages in it, if you go looking. Adultery fucks people over. Homophobia is a bad thing. But the movie (and the story), are not about those messages. They are about life: real, complex, and with no clear answers. If you find those messages, it's only because they are true to life, not because the movie is trying to get you to see things that way.